Newcastle Now A Very Good Takeover Target

Written by Dr. Ed Harrison

9:02pm Monday, April 6th, 2015

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With the financial results of the last year now announced, Newcastle United are the 19th richest club in the world with revenues of £129.5M, and one of the most profitable clubs in the Premier League with profits of £18.7M, so Newcastle would appear to be an excellent takeover target for a Billionaire or consortium who wanted to take Newcastle back to their former greatness.

Mike Ashley – owner of money-making machine Also known as Newcastle United FC That certainly will never happen with Mike Ashley as owner.

And we’ve always thought that Mike Ashley wouldn’t sell the club by putting it up for sale, which he’s already done twice with no success, but rather he would get a big unsolicited offer and would then sell quickly.

Mike paid around £135M for Newcastle almost eight years ago, and the club owes him £129M – so the bid would have to be something north of around £265M for the owner to get his money back.

Two big advantages Newcastle have as a takeover target are the fans, who would fill St. James’ Park every home game with 52,000, if we had a good side that was winning games and challenging for honors.

The other is the magnificent St. James’ Park stadium, which is one of the best in England.

And if somebody came in and did the necessary due diligence on the books, we feel that last year’s figures are even better than the 18.7M in reported profit.

There’s about £28M in increased revenue, that did not fall through to the bottom line as profit – so it’s gone somewhere as costs.

Newcastle finances are probably even better than the figures that were reported – which are both club records.

Another advantage for Newcastle is the enormous money coming in from the Premier League every May.

And next year the new massive three year deal clicks in, and the TV rights have gone from the current £3B to a massive £5.1B – an increase of 70%.

So assume we got about £80M for being 10th last season – that would be around £136M in May, 2017, if Newcastle finished 10th in the season after next.

And that would add around £56M to the revenues from last year – so let’s just say Newcastle are going to become a rich club with big profits – always assuming Ashley’s stringent and sometimes reckless policies don’t wind up getting us relegated again.

If an ambitious owner came in there would be ample money to spend on building up the squad rather quickly, and they could hire a world-class manager, yet still break even financially (zero profit), and keep within the guidelines of the UEFA Financial Fair Play rules.

So the bottom line is that Newcastle would appear to be a very good takeover opportunity for an ambitious new owner.

However, American Randy Lerner is having trouble selling Aston Villa – who are also a very famous club – and it seems like the best offer he will get for Villa is around £150M.

The news this week is that Lerner has flown to England to enter into discussions with an unnamed consortium with Villa at a price of £150M, and negotiations are said to be at an advanced stage.

But with Aston Villa still in danger of being relegated – being only 2 points above the drop zone in 4th bottom place – a purchase now would seem very risky.

Newcastle would be a much better bet, but the club would cost around £115M more.

With all this big money coming in, we also doubt that Ashley would want to sell; not until we’ve had a couple of years of the new massive TV deal that starts next year.

Newcastle’s currently too good of a money-making machine for Mike Ashley for him to sell now.

Pardew wasn’t the problem at Newcastle, he would be under strict Mashley rule and trying to motivate a basic lackluster bunch of championship players wouldn’t have been easy. Carver is having the same problem.

enough with pardew. say what you want about him, but the numbers dont lie. He was not a good coach here. no one cares if he has half a good season with a team, we had a half a good season with him last year and look where it ended.

carver is pardew 2.0 so i doubt our results would have been any better here if he was here. BTW, the first goal was offisde on 2 separate occasions. All the bad luck we go the last 4 years has reversed for him now on CP. they have gotten basically every break since jan.

Far far worse than Palace and Pardew doing okay against Citeh – their GA is now -3 – we’re at -16 and the lack of investment in our defence gets every more critical. And it will not be remedied over the summer.

All that APs turn round at Palace has shown is that it really is the fatman who is the brake on our club, the real nihilist who sells tat sportswear at vast profits but cannot run a successful football club. His placeman is gone.

Palace more likely to be a take over target Seven wins out of eleven 39 points Safe More Sky money And Pardew has taken anger management courses What more could Ashley wish for – sell NUFC ( please ) and take over at Palace where he has friends with benefits down in the smoke. Perfect scenario

f you want to fight Ashley then you all and me included need to do far more than we’ve ever done before. That will mean more than sending pithy comments via all manner of social media. It will mean getting off your arses and getting on the streets and acting. If you really care as much as how hard you all press those letters on a keyboard, you’ll be there with your fellow Mags and you’ll be putting up a fight with no guarantee of success. You’ll be doing it because you know it’s the right thing to do and you’ll be arguing with your mates who look and sound like they have lost all hope, the clueless twat next to you at the match who knows nowt but has all the answers … it will mean giving up your spare time and not leaving it to some unknown others to sort it.

Mactoon@10 Haymarket – shall never forget the atmosphere and some of the characters in there – real men who grafted for a living and knew how to drink ! Just sad that the likes of Ashley can’t even comprehend what it’s all about

The only way to get of Mashers is to embarrass him. Advertising his tat in front of 15k is the answer. Geordies are too proud or dumb to vacate their seats. None of the other top teams would put up with this bollocks so our fans deserve all the rubbish served up. Demos are pointless. Mashers will laugh at a demo.

So Pardew’s Palace push on up the Premiership. Another big scalp for our much maligned former manager, whose 9 points against Liverpool, Spurs and Chelsea before Xmas could well be enough to keep us in the premiership the way things are looking at the moment. As for the website, I’m all for it. I think it’s significant that this time it’s not directed at Carver. Presumably not because Carver is seen as a better manager than Pardew, but because the penny has finally dropped that Ashley has been the villain all along, and Pardew was never appreciated at NUFC for the ability he clearly has.

Of course the Haymarket was the best bar in town. I was a regular for a while, and a mate of mine worked behind the bar for a couple of years when at college. The best and LOUDEST jukebox in the world :0)

The biggest shame was of course after the Uni bought the land and knocked it down in 87(?) They didn’t re-develop the land until a couple of years ago.

The only way he can be forced out is if someone shoots the bastard. In the meantime he is going nowhere. He doesn’t give a shit what the Ashley out brigade say or do. As long as NUFC are making money and set to make even more with the new TV deal he will take any shit that is coming. He will sit in his mansion smoking a his cigar, drinking his Port and is probably thinking “that will show the Geordie bastards they have it coming after all the abuse they’ve thrown my way” He is a nasty vicious sod and won’t be scared off by a few marches and bad headlines. The empty stadium thing is bollox. All he would do is give away tickets to the kids if there were empty seats, shuffle the crowd round relative to the cameras so it doesn’t look bad and maybe whack up a few more SD hoardings. The revenue loss is pocket money to a bloke worth £3 billion. The fact is Ashley will go when it suits him and not before.Having shelled out about £260 million including his loan he would not accept anything less than £400 million for the club. The Next TV deal probably means he would not accept less than £500 million. Getting rid of him is going to be far, far tougher than most people understand; The chances are, he will leave when he has achieved what he set out to achieve. Pleasing the “Geordie Nation” is most certainly very high up on his list of priorities.

Any player who was fit and available and could not get onto the pitch at Sunderland needs to take a long hard look at themselves because if the current shower of shit-bags is keeping them out of the team, then f knows what that says about them.

Been watching documentaries about Fred Dibnah, a great man. What a job he done. Not like MA I made a fortune and didnt do anything with it. Sick of hearing the same old crap every day he’s gonna do this and he’s gonna spend that. It’s all bolloxxx.

Starting to feel some traction lads…we need everyone to buy into this new anti ashley effort and get our angst to the levels of our weegy mates at Rangers.

Whatever happens you have to love the club more than you hate Ashley…you have to shed any lingering complacency of his ownership of our great club, absolutely despise what he’s done and aim to free the club of his cancerous bile.

health update

My latest checkup was yesteday and after a battery of tests the results show the cancer remains stabilized and has not spread further.

Some background - I was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer in February 2017 after being in remission for six years. and I completed four months of intense chemotherapy in late July.

The cancer metastasized through the bones and one treatment available I am undergoing is hormone treatment.

There is no cure for Stage 4 cancer and I will continue to have exhaustive blood tests about every three months and CAT-scans and bone-scans when necessary.

I will do my best under the circumstances and I take this as another challenge - a big one.

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